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Loving the Price: The Reason for High Price in Academic Books

by on August 31, 2011

Interesting observation from Jeff Tucker on the Mises Blog about the reason for the inflated cost of academic books:

Loving the Price

July 29, 2011 by

This new book in Austrian theory is $711.

A similarly sized hardback in the Mises store is $25.

Just saying.

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Pierre July 29, 2011 at 12:45 pm [edit]

Is there a free online version of Austrian Law And Economics? jk…

Jeffrey Tucker July 29, 2011 at 12:57 pm [edit]

No. It is just reprints from academic journals.

You do know what makes this crazy system work, right? 1) copyright monopolies, 2) tax money that is buying these books for state university libraries.

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